1. So this incident is pretty old news, and nothing unique, but I did notice this part:

The Police Department has an autism response team, but it was not dispatched.

Really? That's kind of cool, I guess. I'm a little worried about what kind of special training this team receives. Can't they just do some disability awareness for all of the police?

2. Awesome. When are they gonna teach it ASL? (Or BSL, given that it's in the UK.)

3. Contemporary archaeology is a response to the problem of preserving and recording our disposable, rapidly changing culture.

Interesting. Hadn't thought of it from that angle -- the need for archaeology as a response to rapid change (instead of a response to lack of recorded history, etc.)

4. For some reason, my first thought upon seeing this was, "It's snack sized!"

Also, this design just looks man-made to me. Strange that it occurred naturally.

5. The mustang was white all over, with dark spots on his rear, betraying some Appaloosa in his ancestry, but with hooves like dinner plates, suggesting the additional introduction of something more along the lines of a draft horse. He'd been named Dot by the inmates at the Honor Farm near Riverton, where he'd been trained as a wild-born five-year-old. As a result the mustang had both native sense and correctional-facility manners, and you can do a lot worse than that in a horse.

Ha. True.